An interesting article published at Forbes shows, with some detailed references reported, how Vista's DRM features are really annoying (and completely useless) for the end-users.
What I found particularly annoying is the following comment posted by the author:
Vista continuously spends CPU time monitoring itself, trying to figure out if you're doing something that it thinks you shouldn't.
It is not surprising then that Vista requires more powerful machines to run flawlessly. And again, end-users are the only ones to be damaged by useless stuff, as stated in the article:
Unfortunately, we users are caught in the crossfire. We are not only stuck with DRM systems that interfere with our legitimate fair-use rights for the content we buy, we're stuck with DRM systems that interfere with all of our computer use--even the uses that have nothing to do with copyright.
New machines are sold in stores with Vista already installed, without any choice for the buyer. It will be really interesting if end-consumers will start to refuse to buy a machine with Vista installed, but too bad most of people are interested only in graphical aspect of an operating system and are not aware at all of what an OS actually contains...
